Do you know what the most selling car is? Do you know what is the fastest police car? All these and more is what I'm going to talk about.
Hello Everyone it's here going to list 38 facts about cars.
Let's begin
The German autobahn is the only place in the world where you can drive as fast as you like on public road
Tesla became the world most valuable car company in July 2020
- Almost 96% of a car's life is spent parking
American women buy more new cars than men
Porsche first car is an EV in 1898 the C2 Phaeton
Whale oil we are used in car transmission until Whales were in endangered species list in 1973. This resulted to transmission failure till the synthetic replacement entered the market.
- The 1989 Honda Prelude was the first mass production car to have four wheel steering. Forward steering improves cars agility.
They don't turn much.
- There's a moose test where you have to quickly change Lane and go back to the previous link without speed reduction. Supercars are gaining in this at 51mph (82kmh). The fastest car to do it was in was the 1999 citroen zantia at 53mph (85kph). Thanks to his Hydro-pneumatics suspension that completely stops body roll making it possible for the car to drive on three wheels.
The world largest speeding fine is $1 million. it was issued to a Mercedes SLS AMG driver who did 180mph (288kmh) on a 70mph (112kmh) zone. It happened in Switzerland we are speeding fine was proportional to the drivers income (what if the owner of the car is at the back seat??π€π€).
There are 1.3 billion cars in the world
- In Christopher Nolan's Batman, Bruce Wayne drove a Lamborghini MuciΓ©lago. MuciΓ©lago means bats in Spanish.
- A modern car has about 30,000 parts. How many can you name???
- The word car comes from a Latin word carrum which means two-world Celtic world Chariot.
- In USA a car is stolen every 45 seconds and more of the stolen cars are Honda Accords. So watch out for your neighbor's son's new carπππ.
- Dashboard was a piece of wood attached to a horse drawn carriage to prevent mud or horse poops splashing on the driver.
- Over 70 million new cars are made each year, that number is growing with the third of them coming from China.
- Roger Moore who drove the Lotus spree in "James Bond: For Your Eyes Only" loved the car so much that he wanted to buy it Lotus offered him a 2% discount of the recommended retail price, but Roger never bought the car.
- Daniel Craig who also played James Bond but drove Aston Martin instead can take any car from Aston factory for free for the rest of his life.
- In 2008, Lamborghini gave Italy the fastest police car the V10 Gallardo that was later crashed after just one year of use.
- Chevrolet introduce their first car radio in 1920 with the price tag of $200 (about $3,200 in todays money).
- The world's ever selling car is the Toyota Corolla with over 4.4 million car sold. Nowadays the sell one every 40 seconds (this business is really going well).
- The US has more cars than any other state in the world. 270 million.
- 1 horsepower is lifting 550lbs of weight up to 1 ft in 1 second.
- Car jacking in Johannesburg, South Africa was so rampered that one inventor came up with an anti-theft system that shot out flame from the side of the car. He sold a few hundreds and the device was never banned.
- At the entry of 20th century 38% of cars were electric, 40% we are steam engine and only 22% were gasoline.
- Louis Chevrolet the founder of you know it died poor as a mechanic in his own company (what a historyπ―).
- Koenigsegg Trevita has a carbon fiber body infused with diamond dust. Only three we are made and they will cost you $4.8 million.
*When Volvo invented the modern 3-point seed belts the let other car manufacturers make it with their design for free.
- Airbags inflate in 0.03 seconds faster than blinking your eye.
- In Mid 1960, American sold cars with about 24 defects every piece. So more reliable Japanese cars sold well.
- The cruise control was invented in 1948 by a blind man named Ralph Teeter. He hated how his driver was always accelerating and breaking.
- Half of all new cars sold in Norway are either electric or hybrid since combustion engine and banned. More to that, no car is allowed to marketed as green, as to them all cars harm the planets in a way.
- Leonardo da Vinci made a sketch of a self-propelled carriage in 1478. In 2004 a replica was made and kept in the Museum of Science and history.
In Los Angeles there are more cars than people. I don't know how that is possible.
Each bolt in Pagani Huayra is made of titanium and has a Pagani logo Laser edged on it. There are 1400 of them on each Huayra and together they cost $112,000.
Hong Kong has more Rolls-Royce than any other country in the world.
Evan Gordon achieved the highest mileage in his 1966 Volvo 1800s. He has driven 3,039,112 miles (4,890,992.76km) equivalent to complete 120 circles around earth.
I know you didn't read that number πππ
- The world fastest police car is a Bugatti Veyron going up to 250mph 400kmh used by Dubai police.
Well that's all for fact about cars I will soon talk about each car company one after the other.
THANKS FOR YOUR TIME.